Classes started again last week. I’ve got a pretty easy load this semester (which it should be by now, since I’m in my 5th semester at a junior college grr…) 4 classes in total, Calculus (repeating to bump up my grade), Engineering Statics (fun class 
), US History, and an intro to Accounting class.
I figure as long as I can keep up with homework (honestly a challange for me sometimes) I should have no problem getting a 4.0 this semester. Thats my academic goal for this semester, my first post High School 4.0.
On the creative front, I’ve been doodling in a bunch of diffrent mediums. As I briefly noted before I’ve become a deviant and I’ve done a couple things for my portfolio, but nothing of real substance. At work I’ve been working on a marketing campaing that has consumed most my creative time. Basically I’ve created a whole new image for the company so that by the end of this month we can start pushing our name out in front of new clients, mostly in the Sacramento and Bay Area. The first phase of this campain is to send out postcard like mailers that simply show off what we can do with the intent of getting people to give us a call, or visit our website (which is also being re-worked, more in a bit).
The whole image started with this postcard design. The building is a redering of an arena that we helped design being built in Stockton. From there a few concepts came out, like the black background to make the logo pop, and the question/answer tagline. The whole campain is revolving around the “Creative Solutions for Complex Designs” slogan. The word ‘Problems’ was changed to ‘Designs’ after this orignal postcard was created.
After that came another postcard design, one which actually has made it almost all the way to the print shop (was about to send it today, but a couple things caught my eye). I have an early version also in my scraps at deviantArt here As soon as I fix the few things I’ll actually publish the front and back of the card and link to them from here so you can all take a look.
There is also to be a tri-fold brosure done on 8.5×14″ (22x36cm) 100lb glossy paper. This is for a more lasting impact on a prospective or VIP client as it contains more images, more descriptions etc. I dont have any avalible images of what this is going to look like, its still kind of early in its design, but the same kinds of themes apply. The cover is solid black, with nothing but the logo, out website address and the slogan “Creative Solutions for Complex Problems”. The rest is black text on a white background (mostly) to make it easy to read. Its also being designed so if we wanted to mail it out, we could with a blank back.
Lastly, the website is getting a face-lift, as well as some implants. First, I’ve only started on the design so at the moment it does not render well in Internet Explorer (and probably others) so if you want to view it how I intended, you should use FireFox. You can take a look by going to http://www2.electdesign.net. The bigest change is that I’m trying to do it all using a portal system so that later down the road just about anyone can make additions and changes to the site. The Embassy Suites Riverfront page is an example of a complete thought on how project pages should look, as well there are some neat features like the image of Bill in the ‘EDC Expands …‘ news article.
So thats been my visually creative outlet, but I’ve also expanded a little (and probably poorly) into some audio stuff as well. KWOD, the local radio station is doing a competition to see who can do the best remix of the NIN song ‘Only’. So, I downloaded the source files, and a trial of Sony ACID Pro and started mixing. It was WAY easier than I thought it was going to be, and what I ended up with I thought wasn’t half bad for a first attempt. I actually have two, the second was just the addition of another, faster beat track and isn’t polished well but I wanted to know what people thought. Constructive critisizim is very welcomed:
NIN – Only [Indemnity83 MIX]
NIN – Only [Beat Track MIX]
So thats probably going to have to be the end of this post, mostly because its 10PM now, and I haven’t started my homework yet.